THE DIARIES OF FRANK HURLEY 1912

This is the first illustrated edition of the diaries kept by Australian-born photographer and film maker Frank Hurley about his work on the Mawson and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions, his two expeditions to Papua in the 1920s, and his experiences during the First and Second World Wars. While Hurley is best known today as a photographer and film maker, there is another source, so far little kn own to the public, which also gives us a startling sense of the presence of the past -his voluminous manuscript diaries, which have survived ...[Llegir més]